The Passion of Michel FoucaultBased on extensive new research and a bold interpretation of the man and his texts, The Passion of Michel Foucault is a startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers. It chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional odyssey, from his early interest in dreams to his final preoccupation with sexuality and the nature of personal identity. |
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Page 182
... body , " he now asserted , " is the locus of Herkunft , " Nietzsche's term for origins - the place where willing , and feeling , and thinking all take root . But as Foucault described it , this place of origins was also a place of ...
... body , " he now asserted , " is the locus of Herkunft , " Nietzsche's term for origins - the place where willing , and feeling , and thinking all take root . But as Foucault described it , this place of origins was also a place of ...
Page 274
... body , " Foucault remarked , trying to evoke the experience . " There is a creation of anarchy within the body , where its hierarchies , its localizations and designations , its organicity , if you will , is in the process of ...
... body , " Foucault remarked , trying to evoke the experience . " There is a creation of anarchy within the body , where its hierarchies , its localizations and designations , its organicity , if you will , is in the process of ...
Page 275
... body endowed with sexual charac- teristics , was but the last dark hour of a long night that would vanish with the dawn . The body was poised on the edge of a transformation so enor- mous as to make all present notions of identity tied ...
... body endowed with sexual charac- teristics , was but the last dark hour of a long night that would vanish with the dawn . The body was poised on the edge of a transformation so enor- mous as to make all present notions of identity tied ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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